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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
2
Notice from the post office in Diller Nebraska that advertising rates are published locally and will be run until ordered out. Rates are six cents per line for each insertion and apply to second class mail matter.
Political notice from F. M. Tippin representing the Republican ticket for Sheriff of Jefferson County. Tippin pledges to value voters’ support at the November election and assures duties will be faithfully fulfilled.
The piece argues business leaders now trust the government to keep wheels turning regardless of who wins. It mocks threats of a shutdown and warns against class politics and fearmongering seen at Chicago. It expects a healthy, spirited national expression guiding the executive and legislature.
The census enumerators repeatedly labeled many as Housewife with no occupation while listing 60,000,000 farm folks as the broader rural work force. The narrative contrasts so called real jobs with homemaking across American society.
Mrs Phoebe V Warner argues in Banker Farmer that farm wives perform essential labor from dawn to dark without pay. She urges placing a cash value on their work, predicting higher farm value and bank deposits if bankers cooperate to improve marketing and finance for women and children on farms.
A Forestry Service statement from Washington says the Government will administer the new Water Power Act with a commission of the Secretaries of War, Interior and Agriculture. It notes coal cost increases raise steam prices and that 500 000 horsepower projects have been prepared while 5 000 000 horsepower could be added in five years. The agency urges regions to study untapped water powers under the act.
Nebraska reports 78 900 acres of sugar beet planted this year compared with 64 800 acres last year. The current acreage is about nineteen times larger than the 1910 census figure, placing Nebraska fifth in the nation behind Colorado Michigan California and Utah in order.
A young man arrives in town hoping to marry but rejects nearby ministers and a justice of the peace. An observer hints the event will end all his peace, implying trouble ahead for the marriage.
An Indianapolis wife and husband debate corn and peas with a humorous twist. The wife, tired of catering to his tastes, answers his greeting with a sharp line about corn for hogs and peas for people, revealing household tensions.
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station urges spreading young birds across colony houses to prevent overcrowding. Overpacked houses at night reduce fresh air, causing stunted growth and disease. Ideal colony houses hold 50 to 75 birds, unlike crowded single houses. If emaciated birds appear, check nighttime colony overcrowding.
Applause filled the Serbruck theater in Switzerland as a gigantic python crushed Hungarian trainer Fraulein Ciro during a stage act. Her screams were mistaken for part of the show until the manager shot the snake after the incident, but she died in the coils before help arrived.
Huntington West Virginia Marguerite the twenty month old daughter of EB W Stoller and wife was slowly wasting away. Physicians grew no hope of her recovery. She was seized with a fit of coughing and a watermelon seed swallowed last September was disgorged. Now she will get well.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Captain Wesley L Moore aged seventy eight long a river pilot who hoped to die on the Ohio river was found dead in his cabin aboard the Ivory Wood He piloted vessels between Cincinnati and New Orleans for decades and died at his home riverfront.
Advice for protecting fruit trees from rabbits by painting trunks with a coal tar and creosote oil mix. Mix two thirds to three fourths coal tar with creosote oil to reach thick paint consistency. Apply with a stiff worn brush. rabbits reportedly avoid painted trunks and pruning cuts.
An adjourned village board meeting on July 16 1920 approved the 1920 expense estimate for salaries street work lights and water maintenance totaling 2800 49 and 49 cents with the amount to be spread on the records and published per law H K Shutt chair and C A Reinhardt village clerk
The village of Diter Jefferson County Nebraska adopts an annual appropriation ordinance for 1920. It levies twenty mills on the taxable property within the village, based on 1920 assessors values, with four mills to the general fund five mills to the water fund for water services and related operations. The ordinance is dated July 16 and signed by Chairman H. K. Shutt and Village Clerk A. Reinhardt.
A probate notice from Nebraska Jefferson County court lists a proceeding in Fairbury on a July 2 in the early 1920s. It references the estate of a named individual and the initiation of petit proceedings under probate law.
Final settlement and allowance of the decedent’s final account filed July 2 1920. Hearing set for August 3 1920 at 9 a.m. in the County Court at Airbury to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Notice to interested parties by publication in the Diller Record for three weeks. Louis J Nutzmar seal County Judge C H Denney attorney for estate.
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